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Exclusive interview with guitarist Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance

Mar 30, 2011 19:19

American rock band My Chemical Romance (MCR) released their fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys in November 2010, which marks MCR's first full length release since their 2006 album, The Black Parade. Within that four year time span My Chemical Romance relentlessly toured for two and a half years, took a long ( Read more... )

date: march 2011, interview: ray, source: examiner, interview

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rosalui March 31 2011, 01:02:54 UTC

I will always love that they're totally an album band, and put everything into each song. \o/

yekith March 31 2011, 04:01:17 UTC

Me too! I don't remember with who, but not long ago I was just talking about it. In that case it was about Revenge and we were saying how fucking good all the songs are. Sure, we all have favorites, but there isn't a single song there that I can't enjoy. None feels like a filler. With TBP, even though there are some songs I simply don't like, I could never call them a filler because they're pretty good musically -just not my thing. You can feel they were well thought and the band took care of all details. And exactly the same with Danger Days. Well, just the fact that they scrapped a whole album tells us how much they care about not releasing anything they're not completely satisfied with. And I appreciate that a lot ( ... )

rosalui March 31 2011, 05:07:32 UTC

This exactly! There's a few here or there I'm not overly fond of - Bullets has a lot of songs I can't connect to, or aren't my thing, as is the case with you and TBP - but I never, ever get the feeling that they threw in the towel on a song, or didn't put in much effort, or that it's simply a repeat of another. They never really do the same song twice, and I love that.

I think it's telling that my favorite song off Revenge was not only last on the album, but is also underplayed and under appreciated. :3 It's not only the singles that can tell a whole arc of a story, lift you musically, and basically be completely awesome. \o/

yekith March 31 2011, 05:28:39 UTC

It's like...you listen to their albums and think almost any song off them could have been a single. Many bands I'm sure record the songs that are gonna be singles first, always thinking of them as singles, and then only put half the effort on the rest.

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anna_unfolding March 31 2011, 05:42:02 UTC

It's always really refreshing when artists are honest about things; for some reason, I really love that Ray just says they were scrambling to put a video together, instead of pretending the idea for a concert video was the priority. The fact that the video so nicely captures a My Chem show is awesome, and I love that about it, too!

I also love that he takes such pride in the songs on their albums, and in Gerard's lyrics. IDK that I agree that Sing is lyrically fabulous; though I adore it's message.

Also. LET'S TALK MORE ABOUT SETLISTS IN THE INTERVIEWS, 'KAY? :)

orehime March 31 2011, 05:43:54 UTC

Oh Ray - I LOVE how angry he gets talking about sucky bands filling up their albums with sucky tongs. ♥____♥

orehime March 31 2011, 05:44:37 UTC

Heh - Songs :)

anna_unfolding March 31 2011, 07:35:38 UTC

:) sucky tongs are a problem, too, I'd wager.

orehime March 31 2011, 11:13:01 UTC

I never want to see any kind of tongs on my albums TBH...

komakoma March 31 2011, 08:41:11 UTC

Ray is always so articulate and seems so thoughtful. <3

gala_apples March 31 2011, 09:17:46 UTC

♥_♥

I love you Ray. So. Much. Love.